SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 - OpenCL by Example

Welcome to the course notes and supplementary materials for the SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 OpenCL by Example tutorial and half-day course.

The course was held at SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 on Thursday, 16 December.

The rapidly changing capabilities of modern graphics processing units (GPUs) mean that developers need to understand how to combine parallel-programming techniques with the traditional interactive rendering pipeline exposed by OpenGL and Direct3D. This course demonstrates how to combine traditional rendering APIs with advanced parallel computation using OpenCL (Open Computing Language), a cross-platform API for programming parallel systems such as GPUs.

The course presenters are experts on general-purpose GPU computation and advanced rendering from academia and industry, and have presented papers and tutorials on the topic at SIGGRAPH, Graphics Hardware, Supercomputing, and elsewhere.

Justin Hensley, AMD
Derek Gerstmann, University of Western Australia

Justin Hensley, AMD
Derek Gerstmann, University of Western Australia
Takahiro Harada, AMD

• AMD: http://developer.amd.com/gpu/ATIStreamSDK/
• APPLE: http://developer.apple.com/object/opencl.html
• IBM: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/opencl
• INTEL: http://whatif.intel.com/
• NVIDIA: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/opencl.html
• SNU-SAMSUNG: http://opencl.snu.ac.kr/

1. Morning Tutorial (9:00-10:45)
   • Introduction (Justin Hensley, AMD)
   • OpenCL Overview (Derek Gerstmann, UWA)
2. Afternoon Course - first session (14:15-16:00)
   • Introduction (Justin Hensley, AMD)
   • OpenCL Development “tips and tricks” (Derek Gerstmann, UWA)
     • pattern matching code template
   • OpenCL - OpenGL Interoperability (Derek Gerstmann, UWA)
   • Rigid Body Particle Simulation with OpenCL (Takahiro Harada, AMD)
3. Afternoon Course - second session (16:15-18:00)
   • Bullet Cloth Simulation in OpenCL (Justin Hensley, AMD)
   • OpenCL Demo Showcase (Derek Gerstmann, UWA)
     • OpenCL Example Source Code
   • Incremental Volume Visualization (Derek Gerstmann, UWA)